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Article #2514Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
From: Gordon Burditt
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 19:37
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 19:37
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>In Europe, where I have never argued RSA's patents apply, and I have >never argued the U.S. Munitions laws apply, I argue the ethics of >taking an invention without compensation. Like most such discussions >here, these arguments have evolved as we learn from each other. That >argument also applies in the U.S. Have you compensated the inventors, or heirs of inventors, for your use of these inventions I'm sure you have used? - the wheel - fire - electricity - the English language (or any language) - the lever - money - the internal combustion engine - the telephone - the computer - mathematics - television Gordon L. Burditt sneaky.lonestar.org!gordon
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